taking stock | december's end

|making| plans and resolutions.
|cooking| is not as much fun when it isn't for a big holiday meal.
|drinking| tulsi tea + fresh coconut water + kombucha.
|reading| recipes and dr. weil publications and work marketing pieces. hoping to carve out more time before bed for the written word and ink on pages.
|wanting| to spend months in the english countryside.
|looking| at my computer screen as i wrap up assignments and projects.
|playing| xylophone with miss elinor.
|wasting| mango. i do my best to properly remove the good stuff from that pesky core but i can't help but feel like there is more i could do, less i could waste. those little buggers sure are tasty but they are a nuisance.
|sewing| i can't even talk about it. too many ideas and not enough action.
|wishing| upon a star. i hear that it makes no difference who you are...
|enjoying| our family dinner. real conversations as a family. with elinor chiming in and everything. oh, these moments will get even sweeter {and noisier} with time.
|waiting| for my man to come home.
|liking| all the lists and resolutions and sparkly things and bubbles that this day brings.
|wondering| what this new season has in store...personal and professional and schedules and weekends and home and away and friends and family and faith.
|loving| the full 25 minutes of uninterrupted flirting and playing and snuggles with my little girl. even if it was just because of those pesky teefers.
|hoping| that i can make the days count. that i can write meaningful passages on each blank page that i am given. that the book of 2014 is a riveting tale and exquisite.
|marveling| at the way that elinor arranges her tiny blocks. AND tells each one a story or two as she moves them from box to floor to table to floor and back into the box again.
|needing| new sheets. fresh and crisp for the New Year.
|smelling| my tata harper resurfacing mask. rose and white willow and beets and aloe vera and witch hazel.
|wearing| my new furry slippers.
|following| my gut. and my daytimer.
|noticing| that i need to get my knives sharpened.
|knowing| that i am loved.
|thinking| about so many things. too many things. plans and hopes and dreams and fears. all the things. as one does. my brain is pretty much a sea of swirly twirly gumdrops. ooohh...gumdrops.
|feeling| hopeful.
|bookmarking| real simple. hoping to recall and implement their tips and tricks and inspiration.
|opening| my new nail polish from my hubby. time to paint my toesies.
|giggling| all the live-long day. that little girl of ours is funny. like, for real funny. she cracks jokes and laughs at her own wit. kills me.